23 Years Old Mystery Spinner—Ajantha Mendis

Full name: Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis

Born: March 11th, 1985 Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Age: 23 years

Debut: Against West Indies, 1st ODI, Sri Lanka in West Indies 2007/08, Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, West Indies (on Apr 10, 2008)
Profile: Although classified as a right-arm, slow-medium bowler, Ajantha Mendis is a spinner who bowls a mixture of googlies, off-breaks, top-spinners, flippers and leg-breaks. Batsmen have been confounded by the variety of deliveries he has up his sleeve and are at a loss to figure out what his stock delivery is. Mendis was a prolific wicket-taker for Sri Lanka Army in the 2007-08 season and had taken 46 wickets at an average of 10.56 and strike-rate of 31 from six matches. His performances did not go unnoticed for Mendis was called up to the Sri Lanka squad for the tour of West Indies in April 2008.

He has been playing for Sri Lankan cricket team only 2 months and 20 days now. International cricket commentators calling him as, "Mystery Spinner" now—because of the variety of deliveries he has.

We were thinking that what would be the replacement for Muttiah Muralitharan, when Sri Lankan cricket team couldn't find a replacement for Sanath Jayasuriya, by the time he got retired from test cricket.
In fact, "Murali" and "Sanath" are champion players, who can't be replaced. But now, we have a new expectation about the future of Sri Lankan Cricket. That is with the promising new comer—"Mystery Spinner"—Ajantha Mendis.
Read the following articles on Ajantha Mendis. That will tell you the story.

• Mendis joins Kolkata Knight Riders (May 18, 2008)
• The future of Sri Lankan spin (Apr 28, 2008)
• International men of mystery (Apr 28, 2008)
• Mystery spinner (Apr 17, 2008)
• We need to make a plan against Mendis: Bravo (Apr 12, 2008)

As Sri Lankans, please join with me to wish this promising new comer, all the success in his carrier.

Dear Ajantha, Keep up your great performance !!!

Cheers,
CJ

I Have My Own Domain Now ... Yeah!

Hi all,

I am so happy to tell you that I have my own domain now. Which is www.chathuraj.com.
I integrated "Google Apps" by Google™ with Chathuraj.com.

So, I would like to introduce few of the Google Apps that I've integrated with my domain.

• My own search page http://search.chathuraj.com
  This runs on our favorite Google search. I can customize my search page in the way I want using number of gadgets provided by Google Apps.
• Standalone e-mail server:
  I can create number of user accounts (email IDs) for all my friends, which include my domain name. (e.g., yourname@chathuraj.com). Users can log-in to there email account using the link on http://search.chathuraj.com
  As well as, using http://mail.chathuraj.com
• Users of my email accounts can chat in Google™ Talk using their email IDs like "user@chathuraj.com."
• They are provided with "Google™ Docs," "Google™ Calendar," "Google™ Sites," and many more.

My ultimate target is to collect all my good friends from my young ages, in to one place, since most of them have lost contacts with each other.

Please help me to get this success.

Feel free to email your thoughts at "chathuraj@gmail.com" or "thoughts@chathuraj.com."

Finally, I am glad to say a big "CHEERS" to Google™ for their excellent Google Apps.

Regards,
CJ

Web Content Administrator Vacancy @ Aranxa

Aranxa Software (Pte) Ltd., is a Software Products and Services delivery company in Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 02. Our development team requires the following skilled Web Content Administrator to support our on-going development projects.

REQUIRED SKILLS;

• Upload new content, and update existing content on websites when needed, using mainly the Content Management System.
• Quality check texts to be published on the web.
• Contribute to optimizing content for web publishing.
• Manage the Webmaster mailbox and follow up issues raised in incoming mails.
• Provide support to web quality assurance, control and perform functional tests on websites.
• Ensuring the proper functioning of websites and making sure that the links are correct.

RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS;

• Experience of using a Web Content Management Systems.
• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and SQL.
• High general IT skills, including professional experience of MS Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access).
• Ability to understand and manage Database applications.
• Experience of format conversions, production of PDF files and graphic manipulation.
• Good communication skills.
• Fluent in spoken & written English.
• Team player.

Candidate should be prepared to travel overseas on project related work for short period of time.

Please send in your applications to naresh@aranxa.com with the mail subject line indicating clearly which position you are applying for. If there is a match between your profile and the requirements of this position, we will contact you for an interview.

Regards,

CJ

New Look to My Personal Website ...

Hi all,

I've given a new attractive look to my personal website. Still it's under construction though :)

please visit http://chathuraj.99k.org

I would like to have your thoughts. Please write down a comment on this post or email me chathura1922@gmail.com

Cheers!
CJ

Here I Am ...

Hi all,

I just created my new blog account. I would like to say "Hi" to whole blogging community.

Keep in Touch!

Cheers,
CJ